Snake45

You've heard "In the Air Tonight" and "Gimme Shelter" a million times, but never like this. Golden Buzzer! Longer version with full judges' comments:

See my May 23 post. The all-white and red-side schemes were both VERY briefly used. Grump ran some big "mountain motors" in match racing, but for NHRA-legal Pro Stock, all small blocks AFAIK.

Then I'm glad I used the weasel-word IF.

It's all good, all the way around.

It looks like something one of US would put together out of leftover parts from other projects.

If that's a SBC, should be easy enough to use the valve cover as a "ruler" for size.

Good idea! I'll take a look at both shapes and see which works best, and I don't think it would be a huge problem to cut and stretch either one.

I saw a real restored stock Bantam coupe at a car show last year. I was shocked at how small it was. They're tiny!

Can't beat that price. "Yes please!" The PM system here won't work for me. Shoot me an email and I'll give you my address: SnakeACP45 at AOL dot com

Just checked the instructions--the top tree is from the '66 Impala, the bottom one from the '65. Do you have these parts? I'm trying to get together the custom parts from the '66 and could use the four bumperettes in your first pic.

They come with white styrene cushion inserts, too.

Your second/third tree is from the AMT '65 Impala. I just sent one just like it to Can-Con. First one might be from the '66.

VERY interesting! Fabulous idea! Thanks!

My recent thread on build ideas for a "junk" '70 Superbird generated so much enthusiastic response (thanks, everyone!) that y'all reignited another build idea I've been kicking around awhile. Last year at the local toy show, I bought one of these at a very good price: ...and I want to put it on the street. The story line is that some Good Ol' Boy came into possession of an obsolete but largely intact ex-race car, and decided it would be fun to do just enough to it to get on the street, legally (more or less). So I got a JoHan '75 Cutlass to take molds from and sili-clone the headlights and their buckets--Problem One solved. Problem Two is the wheel openings. I can live with the rear ones, but the fronts are comically oversized for what I have in mind. I've given careful thought to rebuilding stock-shape wheel openings from sheet styrene and epoxy, but considering the shape, I have to admit that it would probably exceed my skill level (or my attention span, either way the effect would be the same). I can't recall any model bodies in my possession that have '73 Malibu-shaped front wheel openings, so I'm looking at what else I have that might work, even kinda-sorta well as sheetmetal/patch donors. Two possibilities come to mind: AMT '72 Nova and AMT '70 Chevelle. I have extra bodies of each and wouldn't feel bad hacking the wheel areas out of either and grafting them into the '73 fenders. Which of those two might look better? Or, any other ideas/suggestions? I'm not interested in buying another kit to sacrifice for this project, but I have all kinds of stuff already bought and paid for that might work. (And yes, I know that someone now has a resin stock body of this car, but I'm not interested in buying that, I want to work with what I have on hand, just as my fictional Good Ol' Boy might have.) Ideas? Lay 'em on me!

It was apparently thrilling enough that you allegedly couldn't find the wheels in the picture.

Back in the '70s, Squadron Shop closed out those Peerless Max kits for something like $7 and I bought three or four of the weapons carriers, just because I thought they looked cool. Then they went "dark" and got VERY hard to find for a while. In the early '90s, I swapped one of them to an armor modeler in my local club for a complete, mint, unbuilt, new in box AMT Sonny & Cher Mustang (with a $1.50 price sticker on it). Best swap I ever made! (Better yet--I've heard the other guy tell his friends the same thing! )

Really? If that's the most thrilling thing you guys can find on the internet, I feel so very sad for you right now.

Thanks Geno! Much appreciated! I wouldn't have either (was orange even available on stock '69 Barracuda? Maybe special-order 999 Orange, I dunno....), but it kinda works, doesn't it? Thanks! Thanks!

Very nice! How about some build details?

It's possible that there are several of them in this thread, just not called out as the Pro Shop boxing:

Testor or Model Master Steel, which is only a hair darker than their Aluminum, and both of them are too "flaky" IMHO, but it's about all I can get these days. How I miss Pactra Flat Aluminum and Flat Steel, which used to be my go-to paints for TTs. I'm thinking of mixing some flat black into my next bottle of the Testor Steel and see what that looks like.

I THINK I have that kit. There's nothing special about it, just another reissue of a 1962 tool, but missing several original parts (such as the tonneau cover, which I'd actually like to use).

Sadly, true. Back in the day, the car was largely ignored/forgotten in the shadow of the all-new Charger and Plymouth's Road Runner. Maybe Motor Trend tested one; I don't think it made Hot Rod, Car Craft, or High Performance Cars. The 6-pack '69 Superbees got some love, but the single most famous '68 Coronet was Dick Landy's. And even IT was soon playing Second Banana to his Hemi Dart and Charger. I've been reading Hemmings Muscle Machines and Musclecar Review for well over a decade and I think I've only ever seen one, maybe two, writeups of '68 Coronets in all that time. I too would like to build a model of at least one, maybe two (including Landy's). But we can't even get a decent kit of the iconic '65 GTO, so I'm not holding my breath for a new '68 Coronet.

Thanks! I finished it right about the same time you posted yours, so delayed posting it so as not to steal your thunder on that one. Thanks! Yes, it is, for some reason. Maybe because anybody can build a new kit. Thanks! I see you "get it" too. It sure did. Kinda surprised me, in fact. That's the second decapitated Barracuda I've heard of in the last 24 hours! The horror...the horror! Thanks! That grille turned out to be probably the hardest part of the whole job, a real B-word. It's not molded very cleanly and I kept having to chase paint over-runs.